Improvement in picture-hangers



I. FILES. PICTURE-HANGERS. No. 190,690, Patented May15, 1877.

N-FEI'ERS, PHmUTHOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. D c

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC PILES, OF YANKTON, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

IMPROVEMENT IN PICTURE-HANGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,690, dated May 15,1877 application filed January 25, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAO PILES, of the city and county of Yankton,Dakota Territory, have invented a new Frame Holder and Adjuster; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description ofthe same.

My invention relates to the construction of hangers or supports forpictures; and it consists in the peculiar construction hereinafter morespecifically pointed out in the claim.

In the several figures of the drawing like letters of reference indicatethe same parts.

Figure l is a side view of the support as applied to the wall, andhaving the picture resting thereon. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of thehanger or support. I

The support is formed of one piece of wire, having two vertical arms, AA, two horizontal arms, B B, projecting, where the device is attached tothe wall, at right angles thereto, and which serve as the-supportsproper for the picture, and the armsG 0, extending rightangularly fromthe vertical arms A A, but parallel, or nearly so, with the wall, anduniting in a loop, (1. The arms B B are, at their outer ends, suppliedwith buttons or knobs b b.

The hanger or support is hung upon the wall of a room by means of theengagement of a nail or hook with the loop d. The picture F has cordsattached to its top and back, in the usual manner, said cords being alsoattached above the picture to the walls of the room. The bottom of saidpicture rests upon the horizontal arms B B, and as the tension of thecords is adjusted the bottom of the picture is free to slide or adjustitself correspondingly upon the said arms. If, however, the pictureshould be suddenly and violently struck, and thereby thrown forward, itsmovement will be limited to the knobs b b, thus avoiding the danger ofits becoming unsupported by the arms B B, when the cords might not bestrong enough to prevent the falling of the picture.

What I claim as my invention is A picture-hanger formed of a singlepiece of wire, having vertical arms A A, arms 0 0, loop d, and arms B B,provided with supplemental knobs b b, substantially as set forth.

ISAAU PILES. Witnesses:

OLIVER SHANNON, FRANK J. WASHABAUGH.

